The programme is headed for failure. There is still too much red tape. Immigration approval, investment board approval and a training plan? Their heads are stuck in the past. You just don't take a school leaver and "train them up" for financial services and tech. Never mind programmers and engineers. Even people like accountants, risk managers, certified project managers and actuaries need specialised training that can't be found here, and even those fields are advancing rapidly. With some of the wealth managers now getting into such esoteric products as cryptofunds and ICO investing, one needs to know the mechanisms, laws, jurisdictional guidelines, accounting procedures, fund management mechanics and even the legal profession needs ramping up on these issues. You just don't train them up like you train up a doorman or a maid or a service worker. What the government doesn't realise, is that the practitioners of these advanced arts, may not have the skills to train people even though they work in them. Training itself is a scientific endeavour with KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), Syllabus construction, testing and learning metrics. What these bozos in government do not realise, is that the whole world is now a knowledge industry with areas like big data, analytics and even hiring and human resources has gone on to a whole new technological level. The morons in government don't know how much they don't know. Train up Bahamians ha ! Do they look like a fooking university professor?

Where I work, the eastern Europeans are the service workers. They are hard workers and speak English with a thick accent. The guy who cleans the carpet is a man named Radek. He brings me some dough confections with powdered sugar that his wife makes, and I trade him for Belgian chocolates that I get on business trips. One day he said to me "I work hard. I would love your job -- sitting on chair all day pushing buttons". I could never train him up to be a derivatives trader.

LOL. That's the pot calling da kettle a n.... errrr chile of god.

Canada's Wonderland -- a good idea. Folks will get off the boat for a good scary ride and attractions. Dinner shows -- outta style, old fashioned, no one goes to them any more. However, big name entertainers work, but it requires a lot of money, more than your wonderland idea. I think if folks could see a wonderland style park from the boat, they would all get off to check it out.

So you start a national lottery with bigger jackpots, more winners and you tax the living shiite outta the webshops until they close their doors.

How many doppelgangers do you have?

Why is it the MOE's fault if the kid is in a gang and goes to school near gang rivals? What ever happened to personal responsibility -- each person is responsible for their own behaviour? The euphemism "my son wasn't perfect" speaks volumes. What do you have to do, to goad someone to pump your body full of bullets? If this is the way that 15 year olds settle scores, then we are finished as a civilised country. It is a war zone out there.

This is exactly what the country needs. Cayman Enterprise City figured this out years ago. Maybe this will help create a tech industry in The Bahamas.

Actually Kwasi and Marlon.

As far as I am concerned, the Port Authority is part of the problem and not the solution. They are milking the old cow dry until it dies, and then the real estate might be worth something someday.

Thanks

It's easier and faster to spread the dump fire to Bay Street.